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Title: Timeline


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Timeline Disability Services in Australia
  • Sources
  • www.dsa.org.au/life_site/text/timeline/index.html
  • www.pdcnsw.org.au/education/_timeline.html
  • www.nswcid.org.au/publications/fs/milestones.html
  • Western Australia Disability Commission

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Community Attitudes 1800s Medical Perspective
Institutionalisation
  • Australian milestones
  • 1811 First institution, Castle Hill Asylum,
    established in NSW
  • 1852 Adelaide Lunatic Asylum established
  • 1866 Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind
    established

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1900s
  • Australian milestones
  • 1901 Federation of Australia
  • 1910 Invalid Pension introduced
  • 1933 First folding tubular steel wheelchair
    invented.
  • 1945 Sickness Benefit introduced.
  • 1950s First sheltered workshops for children
    with disabilities established.
  • International influences
  • 1945 United Nations formally established.
  • 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of
    Human Rights proclaimed as a common standard of
    desired achievement for all people and all
    nations, signed by Australia.

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1970sSocial Perspective De-institutionalisation
  • Australian milestones
  • 1970s Electric wheelchairs become available in
    Australia.
  • 1974 Commonwealth Government passes the
    Handicapped Person's Assistance Act which
    recognises people with intellectual disabilities
    and provides a basis for funding.
  • 1978 World's first cochlear implant operation
    performed at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear
    Hospital.
  • International influences
  • 1971 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
    Mentally Retarded Persons ratified by Australia.
  • 1972 American, Wolf Wolfensberger, developed the
    Principle of Normalisation as a foundation for
    planning and operating human services and judging
    their quality used as the basis for legislation,
    principles and standards governing services for
    people with disabilities in Australia.
  • 1975 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
    Disabled Persons, signed by Australia

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1980s
  • Australian milestones
  • 1981 Survey of Handicapped Persons conducted by
    Australian Bureau of Statistics.
  • 1983 Commonwealth Review of Handicapped
    Programs.
  • Disability Advisory Council Of Australia (DACA)
    established.
  • 1985 Home and Community Care Program (HACC) sees
    the first community based respite services
    established.
  • National Occupational Health and Safety
    Commission Act.
  • International influences
  • 1981 International Year of Disabled Persons
    increases awareness of disability in Australia.
  • 1982 1993 United Nations Decade of Disabled
    Persons

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Community Attitudes 1990sMove away from
government-run services.Services privatised or
contracted out.
  • Australian milestones
  • 1986 Commonwealth Disability Services Act (DSA)
    enacted with the support of all political
    parties, changing the focus from service
    provision to outcomes for people with
    disabilities.
  • Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Discrimination
    Act.
  • 1991 Commonwealth State Disability Agreement
    (CSDA) transfers the direct administration of
    disability services, except employment and some
    advocacy programs, from the Commonwealth to the
    States and Territories.
  • 1992 Commonwealth Disability Discrimination Act
    (DDA) enacted, making it illegal to discriminate
    against people with a disability in employment,
    education, access to public premises and
    accommodation.

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Community Attitudes 1990s (Cont.)
  • Australian milestones
  • 1993 Commonwealth Disability Service Standards
    developed for disability employment services
    funded by the Commonwealth Government.
  • 1993 Northern Territory Disability Services Act.
  • 1999 Northern Territory Disability Service
    Standards.
  • International influences
  • 1993 United Nations Standard Rules on the
    Equalisation of Opportunities for People with
    Disabilities.

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2000
  • Whole of Life approach in government policy.
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